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The Anthony Cummings-trained Stray got off the mark at the sixth attempt when winning at Randwick on Wednesday.
After what Cummings felt was a luckless debut campaign, Stray could now be Australian Oaks bound and is a 16/1 shot for the Group 1 feature on 9th April.
A daughter of Thunder Fantasy, Stray's first preparation saw her tackle the Listed Dulcify Stakes, Group 3 Gloaming Stakes before ending the campaign with a midfield finish in the Group 1 Flight Stakes.
Sent off as the well-supported $3.20 favourite for Wednesday's contest, the three-year-old was sharp away from the barriers under Jason Collett and travelled well behind the leaders.
Coming home three-wide round the bend, the filly careered away from her rivals to win by just over two and a half lengths at the line.
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"She's very good, it's hard to put it in any other terms," Cummings said. "She was almost arrogant there in the finish and she's still got a lot of improvement left in her.
"She had no luck at all (debut preparation) - barriers and different things. She should've beaten Profondo first-up which would've been good form leading into anything as the carnival unfolded. I think the things we are looking at for this preparation are well within her reach."
Having ridden Stray in a Randwick trial placing, Collett was full of confidence going into the first-up assignment.
"We were pretty confident coming into today in this sort of field that she should be able to put them away," Collett said.
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